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Learning, Sharing, and Teaching => Investor Alley => Topic started by: joenorm on January 03, 2019, 05:31:36 PM
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Lets say I started a small side business(legal) that earned 20K Per year on top of a pretty full time job.
Could I contribute 100% of that into a Solo 401K and not pay taxes on any earned income?
That seems like a pretty good deal right? I'm new to all this stuff so feel to let me know if there are better ways to think about this.
thanks
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IF you don't have any other 401k or 403b plans at your regular job that you already make contributions to. Then, you could contribute up to 100% of your first $19,000 in net self employment earnings to a solo 401k as an employee contribution.
Net self employment earnings is calculated as self employment business profit less one half self employment taxes.
If you already make contributions to a workplace retirement plan, your solo 401k contributions would be more limited.
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I should have added. Employee contribution to the solo k could be pre-tax or Roth. If pre-tax you wouldn't pay income tax, but you would still pay self employment tax (social security and Medicare).